sBrowser 5.0: Rebuilding a Small Browser for Today's Web

sBrowser started life as a teaching app for a workshop at 091 Labs: a WebView, an address bar and a few buttons. It grew bookmarks, an ad blocker and a video player over the years, was rewritten in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose in January 2024 (3.x), and 4.4 shipped in March this year. When Google Play’s new rule to target Android 16 (API 36) came due, I sat down to bump a number and ended up rebuilding most of it. sBrowser 5.0 went to Google Play for review today.

sBrowser 5.0 showing a Wikipedia article, with the address bar at the bottom